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Generative modeling has recently undergone remarkable advancements, primarily propelled by the transformative implications of Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs). The impressive capability of these models, however, often entails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Computer-assisted treatment has emerged as a viable application of medical imaging, owing to the efficacy of deep learning models. Real-time inference speed remains a key requirement for such applications to help medical personnel. Even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Suman Sapkota , Pranav Poudel , Sudarshan Regmi , Bibek Panthi , Binod Bhattarai

Neural networks can be compressed to reduce memory and computational requirements, or to increase accuracy by facilitating the use of a larger base architecture. In this paper we focus on pruning individual neurons, which can simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Bin Dai , Chen Zhu , David Wipf

We show how solution concepts from cooperative game theory can be used to tackle the problem of pruning neural networks. The ever-growing size of deep neural networks (DNNs) increases their performance, but also their computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Mauricio Diaz-Ortiz , Benjamin Kempinski , Daphne Cornelisse , Yoram Bachrach , Tal Kachman

We explore the effect of introducing prior information into the intermediate level of neural networks for a learning task on which all the state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms tested failed to learn. We motivate our work from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Çağlar Gülçehre , Yoshua Bengio

Recent advancements in large language models have intensified the need for efficient and deployable models within limited inference budgets. Structured pruning pipelines have shown promise in token efficiency compared to training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yixiao Li , Xianzhi Du , Ajay Jaiswal , Tao Lei , Tuo Zhao , Chong Wang , Jianyu Wang

The widespread availability of pre-trained vision models has enabled numerous deep learning applications through their transferable representations. However, their computational and storage costs often limit practical deployment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Leonardo Iurada , Beatrice Occhiena , Tatiana Tommasi

Deep neural networks are often highly overparameterized, prohibiting their use in compute-limited systems. However, a line of recent works has shown that the size of deep networks can be considerably reduced by identifying a subset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Minsu Cho , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde

Federated Learning (FL) represents a growing machine learning (ML) paradigm designed for training models across numerous nodes that retain local datasets, all without directly exchanging the underlying private data with the parameter server…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Tamir L. S. Gez , Kobi Cohen

Although 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are essential for most learning based applications involving dense 3D data, their applicability is limited due to excessive memory and computational requirements. Compressing such networks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zhiwei Xu , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Vibhav Vineet , Richard Hartley

We study the neural network (NN) compression problem, viewing the tension between the compression ratio and NN performance through the lens of rate-distortion theory. We choose a distortion metric that reflects the effect of NN compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Berivan Isik , Tsachy Weissman , Albert No

The advent of sparsity inducing techniques in neural networks has been of a great help in the last few years. Indeed, those methods allowed to find lighter and faster networks, able to perform more efficiently in resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Nathan Hubens , Victor Delvigne , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

Traditional (unstructured) pruning methods for a Transformer model focus on regularizing the individual weights by penalizing them toward zero. In this work, we explore spectral-normalized identity priors (SNIP), a structured pruning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zi Lin , Jeremiah Zhe Liu , Zi Yang , Nan Hua , Dan Roth

Neural networks are commonly trained in highly overparameterized regimes, yet empirical evidence consistently shows that many parameters become redundant during learning. Most existing pruning approaches impose sparsity through explicit…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zubair Shah , Noaman Khan

Quantization, knowledge distillation, and magnitude pruning are among the most popular methods for neural network compression in NLP. Independently, these methods reduce model size and can accelerate inference, but their relative benefit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Rajiv Movva , Jinhao Lei , Shayne Longpre , Ajay Gupta , Chris DuBois

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are usually over-parameterized, causing excessive memory and interconnection cost on the hardware platform. Existing pruning approaches remove secondary parameters at the end of training to reduce the model size;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Gokul Krishnan , Xiaocong Du , Yu Cao

Deep pre-trained Transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art results over a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. By learning rich language knowledge with millions of parameters, these models are usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhengyan Zhang , Fanchao Qi , Zhiyuan Liu , Qun Liu , Maosong Sun

By removing parameters from deep neural networks, unstructured pruning methods aim at cutting down memory footprint and computational cost, while maintaining prediction accuracy. In order to tackle this otherwise intractable problem, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 César Laurent , Camille Ballas , Thomas George , Nicolas Ballas , Pascal Vincent

Pruning can be an effective method of compressing large pre-trained models for inference speed acceleration. Previous pruning approaches rely on access to the original training dataset for both pruning and subsequent fine-tuning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Haihang Wu , Wei Wang , Tamasha Malepathirana , Sachith Seneviratne , Denny Oetomo , Saman Halgamuge

Adversarial pruning compresses models while preserving robustness. Current methods require access to adversarial examples during pruning. This significantly hampers training efficiency. Moreover, as new adversarial attacks and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Tong Jian , Zifeng Wang , Yanzhi Wang , Jennifer Dy , Stratis Ioannidis